this this stepping down, haiti's prime minister resigns after weeks of protest calling for him and the president to leave. >> i would do it again in a minute. >> no regrets.

the former u.s. vice president defends brutal torture techniques at guantanamo bay. a top story coming out of libya where the. abruk government has accused forces of being like isil and trying to take over resources in order to sponsor what they call terrorist activities, that follows the closure of the company's two biggest oil ports due to fighting. libya has seen instability as armed groups loyal to the two rival governments battle for control. a professor of international politics joins me now from san antonio. thank you very much, sir, for being with us. if you could, just explain to us this stoppage of the shipping terminals. how does this affect the

country's resources? >> it's going to affect it tremendously, especially now when libya is going to face extreme deficits in the coming years. not only this year, next year. this is going to make it much, much worse. it's going to put tremendous pressure to the government to come up with some solutions to the economic situation. i thinks that's the reason behind the attack to put put pressure on the government and the economy of the country by the malitias of the libya dawn. >> can you tell us a little bit more about the fighting? particularly about the faja libya forces, which is being accused of being compared to isil forces. >> the truth of, it is very much so. the spearhead in these forces, but i would say the islamists have found a good ally in that

city and the city malitias have been very, very useful for the islamists and this is why they tried, of course, in benghazi and now they are losing badly in benghazi, the second big city where the major allies surrounded despite facing difficulty and the tun easeia border is now under the libyan army's control. there is pressure over there. this is the only outlet for them is to go east to try to disrupt the oil flow of the country. i think in a way, this is suicidal, but if it succeeds, then they make it -- they would achieve a tremendous victory. really, there is -- this is the last bullet they had, the last arrow they had in their quiver. >> you paint a very pessimistic picture of the country as it is. libya is certainly torn in two by the conflict and the fact that it has two governments

running at the same time. can you in any way see a resolution to this? >> the res ruolution, if the we is willing to accept a cease-fire but i think the bus problem with what has happened is with the destruction, the mahem that has taken place. the east would be leery of accepting acease-fire of the west. benghazi is destroyed. more important, this move is foolish because what it is doing is setting up the country for a division. what is happening is it is establishing its own border, boundaries. the next step would be a separation and break-up of the ku country. it's impossible to stop that. there had a to be rachelle heads thinking but libya lacks these

rational heads. i am pessimistic. >> complexities continues. thank you for your insight. man assume helhiki speaking to us from san antonio. in syria there has been intense fighting in the prove incident of aleppo rebel fighters say they killed several and destroyed some vehicles but the syrian state news agency quoting a military source said the government remains in control of the village. the asad regime insists it is in control of the airport in de deir az zir. kurdish forces in the syrian town of kobane say they made advances against fighters from the islamic state of iraq in the levan. bernard smith has more. >> reporter: the airport is one of the last regime strongholds in the east of syria. the forces of the bashar

al-assad have managed to hold on to parts of the provincial capitol while isil consolidated its hold in the rest of the area. winning control of the airport would give isil control of the oil. isil has made previously attempts to get on to the air field but fighters have been beaten back by syrian forces. the pro-assad channel claimed the government is also in control of the area around the airports. >> in kobane, kurdish fighters say they have pushed isil out of much of the southern part of the town. they also say. they say three months of airstrikes and car bombs and fighting have reduced much of kobane to rubble. >> isil fighters control the eastern side of kobane. they have apply route open there. the group has faced it's stiffest resistentions from this town, having pushed more easily

syrian kurdish fighters are backed up by iraqi peshmerga and u.s.-led coalition airstrikes. barnard smith, al jazeera, istanbul. in neighboring iraq, the army says it has killed more than 100 isil fighters in anbar prove incident within the last 24 hours. there has been intention fighting in the cities of ramadi, 4 i think /*a and the crossing tribesmen are supporting iraqi security forces. jane arraf has the latest from baghdad. >> reporter: from suicide vehicle bombs to moveders and snipers there has been intention fighting. it started with a suicide bomber driving a humvee, one of the u.s.-made humvees used by the iraqi army and seized by isil as they took over large parts of the country in june. they confiscated hundreds of the vehicles and in the past month,

they have blown up more than a dozen of them using suicide bombs. now, this was on the road to the syrian border from the provencial capitol, ramadi and it's near ramadi where some of the fiercest fighting has been taking place. isil fighters are now less than a kilometer away from the provincial council building. there has been fighting going on as they mortar provisions within a compound. no compound, there are iraqi security forces as well as government officials. but isil has also fought hard for areas including fallujah, one of the sub districts that's been under siege for months now. >> that's a key area because it's on the road to baghdad. it's an indication of isil's strategically choosing battles in an bar as its been purposed out of the north. tribes in anbar say they are desperate for help. they don't want boots on the ground. they don't particularly want

iraqi security forces. they don't want shia malitias. what they want are arms and ammunition, and some are even saying american help in the form of soldiers coming to advise them. >> that's not likely to happen, but what is happening is the arrival of more british advisors and more american advisors. britain has said that it's sending several hundred military experts achld advisors here in the new year. they willing remain on bases in the kurdish region and here around baghdad. they are not likely to go out with the troops but officials are hoping that they will make a difference in making the forces that are fighting on the ground much more efficient. >> palestinian leaders are meeting ramallah to discuss their response to the death of a minister last wednesday. he died shortly after a confrontation with israeli police during a protest. jane ferguson is in ramallah in the occupied west bank. now, jane, as we understand it, palestinian president mahmoud

abbas spoke ahead of the meeting. did he give an indication as to what was on the agenda? >> he did. he spoke to those who had gathered in the meeting, laying out various topics for discussion, various suggestions fors a response, as you have said, to that death. one of those is, of course, a u.n. -- draft for u.n. security council resolution that has been discussed over the last few months but there is an idea now to put it forward and push action on that draft and have it submitted formally. >> draft would see palestinian, independent palestinian state by 1967 borders. it would also call for the ending of the israeli occupation within the next two years. these also mentioned other areas they could move on one being signing the rome station, joining the icc, the international criminal court. if the palestinians did join that, they could technically take israel to court for war

crimes, and israel could take palestinian groups to court for war crimes. >> that's been an idea that has been floated for some time in this part of the world. the israelis are extremely opposed to that. those are some of the items 207 of the agenda in that meeting that has been going on for over an hour and continues now. >> jane, apart from the u.n. resolution, as you mentioned, apart from that path, what other options are available to the palestinian leadership? >> reporter: well, another issue, as well as potentially joining the international criminal court, that has been floated and debated much here has been this issue of security coordination between the palestinian authority and the israelis. now, essentially, the palestinian authority coordnatures with the israelis in the sense that, therefore, it can operate. now, there is also security coordinati coordination. the security forces and the police officers here in the west bank can -- and those commanding them often cooperate in a way that makes their working lives

possible. now, that has been seen as quite controversial by some in the west bank. there has been discussion about ending security coordinatiocoor that is very unlikely to be on the cards presently, to be completely ended because that would make running the west bank as a bureaucracy extremely difficult. it would lead to an enormous amount of questions. there could be perhaps a change or some reforms in that relationship. but that is unlikely to happen overnight. >> all right, jane. jane ferguson speaking to us from ramallah. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is set to hold talks with the u.s. secretary of state and italy's prime minister in rome on monday. before leaving for the meeting, netanyahu warned against palestine's bid to the u.n. urging israel to withdraw from the west bank. >> translator: i will tell the both of them that israel stands to a great extent as a solid

island against the waves of islamic extremism working over the entire middle east. until now, we have successfully with, tooed and repelled these attacks. and now, we also stand against the possibility of a diplomatic assault. >> that's to say, an attempt to force upon us, through u.n. resolutions, withdrawals to the 1967 borders within a defined time frame of two years. and this will bring radical islamic elements to the suburbs of tell aftviv and the heart of jerusalem. we will rebuff this forcefully and possibly. let there be no doubt, this will be rejected. >> johnk kerry is inrom where h has been meeting with sergey lavrov. the sunday talks are taking place at a time when there is anger in mros moss co over the prospect of new u.s. safrningsdz. u.s. politicians pass add bill for more sanctions against russia as well as the delivery of military hardware to ukraine.

the bill still needs to be approved by the white house, which has so far been reluctant to give kiev direct military assistance for fear of being withdrawn into a proxy war with russia. claudio has more from rome. >> on sunday evening, the u.s. secretary of state, john kerry and russia's foreign minister, sergey lavrov met in rome at a time when u.s./russia relations reached a new low, especially in view of a about that was passed by the u.s. senate last thursday in which the senate pledged to impose new sanctions against mosque co and issue $350 million worth of hardware to help ukraine fight 13r59ists in the region of crime me a. before the meeting, they had a few moments with journalists heu.s. embassy in rome. kerry thanked lavrov to accept the investigation to discuss

critical issues and lavrov thanked kerry for inviting him, hoping they could find an agreement on how to deal with the situation in the middle east in particular so that the situation there does not degrade further. ukraine might have been on the table as well as moscow reacted angily at that bill last thursday inc.ing a statement to the foreign ministry website calling that bill anti--russian and overtly confrontational. john kerry will stay here on rome where he will meetitionis's prime minister benjamin netanyahu, al jazeera, rome. >> much more to come on this newshour, including... >> i am cath ri soy in south sudan where an emergency education plan is helping bring thousands of children back to class. >> we visit a town in yemen hoping to become a symbol of peace. in sport, contrasting fortunate

for liverpool and manchester united as they meet in the english premier league. details a little later in this newshour. defense prime minister shaningzo has won, the vote called two years after japan slipped into recession last month. harry fawcett has the story. >> there was no great fist-pumping celebration, this victory seat by seat. he had the air of a man who's plan had worked out perfectly. for shinzo abe, this was the seal of approval he had perfectlied caught it. >> my economic policies are still only halfway done. but i believe we have moved away from those dark days two or three years ago. i am aware there is still a lot of people who still do not feel the benefits of my policies but

it's my duty to bring about these policies to those very people. and i believe this election also voiced that clearly. >> abe told the electorate this was a referendum on his economic recovery plan. but for many, it was more a refer endsum on an opposition in disarray and one which resulted in a record low turnout for a general election. >> the opposition parties are very weak. we really have no choice, en if you wish others could challenge. it's an election that was designed to be won so it's very strategic. as a citizen, it makes me wonder: why now? >> reporter: the poles suggest a majority of japanese voters are confused by the need for this election. there is little enthusiasm on show at this polling station, more a sense of a duty being reluctantly performed, even from those who say they voted for shinzo abe and his government. >> economics has bucked japan out of deflation through massive

stimulus and money printing but the third stage, structural reform is stuck in low gear. as well as getting extra time to achieve that goal, this win enables him to move forward on the rest of his agenda, inclusion restarting the nuclear power industry and renewing his push for changes to japan's pass fist constitution, harry fawc t fawcett, al jazeera, tokyo. >> haiti's prime minister has resigned after months of controversy. demonstrators are calling for long-delayed elections to be held. they want the president to step down. kim vinnell has the latest. >> reporter: anger boiling over on the streets of haiti. anti-government protests and now the country. one of the demonstrators's demands is being met. early on sunday, prime minister announced he will step down he

said the president was ready to make a sa make a sacrifice. protesters are angry over what they say is government corruption and there hasn't been an election in haiti for three years. the president blames the opposition for delaying the vote. >> reporter: this government wwa was. >> this government was supposed to organize e leingsz. all they did was corruption. they ruined the country. that's why we take to the streets and we will be in the streets every sing day. we are asking the u.s. government to come take the president with them because they are the ones that put him in power. >> without new elections, come january, parliament will be dissolved and the president will rule by decree. >> that's why many believe lamon. 's resignation won't be enough to satisfy the crowds. >> no magic wands can safe war on lamon. or safe martelli. there is no way they can be saved. >> the unrest is caused by a political deadlock which even

lamon. ts resignation may not break. if his replacement isn't nominated, haiti will be without a functioning government or a prime minister. kim vinnell, al jazeera. >> the political crisis has been made worse by economic problems. the caribbean island is still struggling to recover from an u urnquake that killed over 100,000 people. haiti positions have been accused of stealing public money. haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere with 3% of the population owning almost 50% of its wealth. it has a history of resistance, rebellion and human rights violations. the international crisis group says without a clear shift in the political attitudinattitude critical international aid could begin to dry up. let's get more now from brian cancanon, the executive director

at the institfractured for justice and democracy in haiti. he joins us from marshville in the u.s. state of massachusetts. thank you very much, brian, for being with us. this is a very complex situation in haiti. if you could, simplify for us the reason for the delay in holding elections. >> i think the real reason for the delay in holding elections, there has been a whole bunch of different evolving explanations the i think the real reason is president martelli does not want to be hindered by legislative oversight. he was supposed to have held the first set of elections just nine months after he came to pour in 2011. ever since then, he has been delaying them. it's a fight over the electoral counsel where president martelli has proceposed a council that comes close to the cstit comes close to the cstiutional

requirements but doesn't meet them. they are people in the parliament who will insist that they comply with the constitution. >> as, if you say, president martelli doesn't want to relink wish power, we know the prime minister has resigned. parliament's mandate is expected to expire in jan. what happens if martelli doesn't step down before january? >> reporter: he will still be president. there won't be any legislature. you don't always need a legislature 24/7. they go to bed at night, go to bed at night and take recess. they are important and not having a legislature starts to add up. particularly in this case when you are talking about the need to establish an electoral council that will be difficult without a sitting legislature. the world is not going to end on january 12th, but the political crisis is going to continue to increase from that time right up until the time of the end of -- until elections are eventually

held and the end of the martelli's term until 2016. >> the political chaos has been ongoing for over three years now. you have been quoted as saying democracy in haiti works but from the bottom up. given the current political chaos, explain to us what you mean by that statement. one of the things in haiti as you mentioned earlier it has a strong tradition, whether it's showing up for elections, taking to the streets and the system is obviously dysfunctional t. the formal branches of government are not working and it looks like the people are taking to the streets and taking matters into their own hands. of course it's better you have a system that has formal structures working but in this case, it's not happening people feel they need to alter the

courts of event did by themselves. >> brian action great getting your insight. brian concanon, the institute for justice and democracy in haiti. the former u.s. vice president dick cheney has defended brutal interrogation techniques that the cia used during his time in. cheney made no distinction between approved enhanced techniques and those that exceeded what the white house authorized. the comments came oafter the u.. released a summary of interrogation techniques used against inmates at the guantguantanamo bay prison in cuba. kristen saloomey joins us in new york. in spite of the report and evidence cheney and other bush officials are standing by the i cia's operation. that's right. former vice president dick cheney and other bush era former officials are facing tough questions, however, in the wake

of that report as more new and grizzly details have come to light about these enhanced interrogation tactics as the adm adminstration called them things like waterboarding, sleep deposrivatio deprivation, holding people up by their wrists, putting them in coffin-sized boxes for hours on end and beating them, frankly. processes, tactics that to the average americans seem tortuous but cheney and other bush officials say stop short of torture. the 500-plus page report that was put out by the senate does detail the steps, the extensive steps that the cia went through to stick to guidelines that were drawn up by the justice department including having doctors and medical personell on hand to make sure that at a time cia agents did not go over the line and cross into to tour, although there are allegations that they did, indeed, do that

even by the justice department's standards on a few occasions. here is how vice president dick cheney, former vice president dick cheney justified the administration's response. >> well, torture to me, chuck, is an american citizen on his cell phone making a last call to his four young daughters shortly before he burns to death in the upper levels of the trade center in new york city on 911. there is this notion that somehow there is moral equivalence between what the terrorists did and what we do and that's absolutely not true. we were very careful to stop short of torture. the senate has seen fit to label their report torture but we stayed short of that definition. >> i want to go back to the report on the cia's interrogation techniques and now that that record has been made public, what happens next?

>> certainly, there is a lot of debate, a lot of discussion taking place in this country and a lot of members of congress who are not hang about what that report revealed, but there doesn't seem to be an appetite to prosecute any cia officials, cia agent did from that time period. since most of them were operating under the justice department's guidelines, it would be difficult to bring charges against them. they would have to prosecute higher level officials. right now, that doesn't seem likely especially that in january, congress becomes overwhelmingly republican and the republican party has stood behind the bush era officials in these enhanced interrogation techniques for the most part. not completely. notable exceptions including senator john mccain, a former prison of war, himself. the toughest calls for accountability seem to be coming from the international arena, u.n. special rappateur, juan mendez has called for

accountability in the united states and an investigation to see whether or not the country violated the convention on temperature which the united states is a party to. he said that should be investigated. he said there is talk of prosecuting people in other countries where the torture took place at so-called "black sites" but in reality, there are limited options available for holding the u.s. government accountable even on an international statement since the u.s. is not part of the icc. >> on the fallout of that report on the cia interrogation techniques. still toe come, a global warming deal could have been reached in peru. environmentalists say it doesn't go far enough. >> this is equador where advanced medical care is reaching outlined communities

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welcome back. let's take a look at the top stories on "al jazeera america." the. obruk government has come paired libya forces to isil accusing them of trying to take over oil fields in various resources in the country in order to sponsor what it called terrorist activities. the accusation follows the closure of the kuncountry's twol areas. >> shinzo abe has won a landslide victory in the country's snap election. the vote was called two years early after japan slipped into recession last month. the former u.s. vice president dick cheney has defended brutal interrogation techniques that the cia used during his time in. comments came after the u.s. government released add summary of interrogation techniques used

at the guantguantanamo principles in cuba. at least sixteen people have died in violence in yemen has houthi rebels pushed for more control. 14 of their fighters died in a battle with al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they have blown up buildings used by their opponents and sacked the government of hudida prove i knew and appointed their own. as caroline malone reports, there are parts of yemen where peace prevails. >> reporter: residents wants to make failure their city a symbol of peace in a country troubled by violence. houthis took control in september and they have been fighting al-qaeda affiliates for northern central yemen. those in charge of. aiz want to focus on it as the country's cultural tie. >> we want to keep. aiz the cultural capitol.

>> houthis are represented by members of their political wing. they have offered to help and support the local leaders to keep the peace. >> we are ready to help local authorities and security forces maintain peace and execute in this province and across yemen. >> there were protests in. aiz when the houthis began to take over neighboring province in rooebt months. people living in the city refused to let the armed group in. others say they will support the houthis as long as they use a peaceful approach. >> we are with the houthis in every civilian plan they adopt. but we reject any project that sets us back to the days of fighting. we are in. aiz rejecting this approach and will now allow it to happen. >> it's this cooperation between local authorities, politicians and the civilian houthi leadership that's keeping the city of. aiz peaceful. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> the e. u. has condemned the

raid on media outlets in turkey. police search the offices of a newspaper and a t.v. station leaked to the u.s. based muslim clairek fat you'lla dulin. others are wanted for questioning. the operation took plays days after president erdogan announced a new campaign against their supporters. al jazeera continues to demand the release of our three journalists who have now been imprisoned in egypt for 351 days. they were jailed on as far as charges of helping the outlawed muslim brotherhood. all three are appealing against their convictions. delegates at the u.n. climate conference in peru have agreed on a last-minute deal. environmental groups have slammed it as a weak and ineffect annual compromise. our environment editor, nick clark reports from lima. >> reporter: at long last, after

endless through the hours wrangling, a resolution. but despite the celebration, many say this document is watered down and very weak. >> this is an incredibly weak decision. so we came in here thinking that we were going to get a pretty ambitious text. we had some commitments. we had pledges for, green climate fund, the u.s. and china announcements and so on. instead, what we got was a half-baked deal. >> there was nearly no agreement at all. the third draft was rejected out of hand by developing countries. >> we feel this text needs a little surgery and we would like us to put on our gowns, our scalpels andcabe insert a few vital organs that need to be incorporated in this agreement. >> reporter: outside, the dismantling began. but it seemed the conference would go on and on. loss and damage, finance before, the u.s. wanted it to stay that

way. >>. >> we have no time for lengthy new negotiations, and i think we all know that. >> the endless back and forth took its toll, the developing countries worked on the words. china and the u.s. who are in disagreement over the state of the text here in lima in the event it was a small victory for the developing nations, and the fourth version of the text of the day. >> we do know that we must address climate change. we know increasingly that we can address climate change. and with this and moving on to anticipates, we cement the fact that we will address climate change. >> reporter: this conference was hosted by one of the country tries worst affected by climate change from melting glaciers to widespread deforestation and all implications. with that backdrop, the lima conference was about charting a roadmap for the global treatny paris in year's time. >> given the optimism there was

before this, lima has been a disappointment. it has been saved by failure by last-minute hustling. there is a lot of work to do if paris 2015 is to be successful. nick clark, al jazeera, lima, peru. the death toll from a boat that capsized in the democratic republic of congo has risen to 129. >> that's according to authorities. the incident happened on lake. angonika in the southeast of the country on thursday. more than 200 people survived but the search and rescue operation continues. officials say strong winds and an overloaded vessel are the cause -- caused the accident sudan's president has welcomed investigation into alleged war crimes in darfur. the probe is halted, they say so

urgent cases can be looked at. bajer accuses the court of trying to hugh mil ate his country. >> the icc has surrendered saying they have failed. it's not because sudan's president has rejected it. it's because the sudanese people rejected them. they have stood in unity saying it's impossible for a sudanese official to be held in court. >> three-quarters of a million children have been among those driven from their homes during the war. some were recruited as child soldiers. others have lost contact with family. from south sudan's upper nile state, catherine soy reports. >> reporter: dianena is 16 years old. she has been taking care of her six siblings since february. jaork was the youngest. their mother was killed and their father is still missing. >> my father left when the fighting was too much, he told us to run ahead because it would

slow us down. >> that's the last i saw him. >> every so often, they come to this unicef tracing. they want to find out if their father has been located. it's not good news. >> insecurity is one of the factors that does not allow our staff to go to trace the parent of these unaccompanied children. >> this is deff. he knows exactly where his parents are. he was told they are in ethiopia. he joined the liberation army when it was just a militia fighting the kar. oom government. until january, he was deployed by the national army to fight the rebels in malakov. ? >> i left the spla because colleagues from my tribe were killed. we thought the other tribe would kill us if they knew we were fighting for the same side. i was afraid they would kill me, too. >> diana, her siblings and, des

and hundreds of thousands have not gone to school all year. >> many schools have been destroyed or closed because of security reasons and getting children back to school has been a struggle. many are afraid, traumatized and s studying might not be a priority right now. they have enrolled in an emergency program. this school only had 600 students before the conflict. now, 3,000 have registered. eighty,000 displaced people before december last year, only one,500 people lived here. >> the children in south sudan like many places are very resilient. the society is very resilient. it's been through 24 years of war. these people are still going. >> reporter: they are about to write their end of year exam. they hope they will pass.

with many teachers having fled, most children juggle ling school and fending for themselves, just being in class is good enough. catherine soy, al jazeera, mulakal, in south sud an's upper nile state. >> for many people in remote communities, access so medical operations is serious. the cost of traveling to a large city can limit healthcare options. in ecuador, a doctor has come up with another way to bring the operating theatre to the patient. from quinkar, harris explains. >> reporter: on the eve of his gal bladder surgery, he tends to his shop, selling candy to neighborhood kids as he has done every night for decades. he. idies everything up to make sure he leaves everything in order. he is nervous as he prepares to close for the night and try to get some sleep. >> translator: i hope everything turns out okay so i can come back to my wife and my children. >> the next morning, luis and

his wife arrive early for the procedure. he puts his personal effects away and is helped into a gown. nearby, the surgical team prepares, scrubbing their hands, donning masks, ensuring supplies are prepared and close at hand. these scenes would be routine in any hospital around the world. but what makes themnique is that they are taking place in a university parking lot at the ecuadoran city of guinka and that the surgical suite is in back after 5-ton truck. >> it issun with of the services that rural populations have the least access to, especially where access social security expensive and hard to get. >> dr. anita vicuna has worked with the mobile surgery unit for two decades since it was started by edgar roles who believed access to surgical services was critical and sorely needed in ecuador's rural areas.

>> ma. ute has been the truck's driver, maintenance chief and even patient did' assistance since the beginning. >> we go where people need us in the most remote areas. it feels good to be able to help people and be part of this project. >> the mobile facility is spartan but effective. >> doctors have performed 7,000 surgeries in this mobile operating room since it started in 1994. the results are astounding: zero fatalities and one of the lowest infection rates in the country. >> luis is living proof. he and his family were able to find affordable access to medical care provided by a creative and driven medical team on wheels. harris whitbeck, al jazeera, quinca, ecuador. >> still ahead on al jazeera, a mouse and a mystery. the story of a long-lost painting which reappeared in the movies. in sport, a tense finish for

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>> you are now moon base number 1. >> reporter: the idea of a manned base on the moon has been around for decades. not just in the realms of science fiction. nasa's apollo missions gave the science community huge amounts of information about the lunar surface. the vast cost and waning public interest saw it xed in the 1970 did. now scientists are looking toward the moon and to mars. >> once you leave earth orbit and you committed to an asteroid or on to marchs, you have cut off your supply line from earth. so you have to be resourceful. >> reporter: this honeycomb like structure was built by a rob on theic 3-d printer. scientists used dust on the moon and water and a. salt that turned it into a concrete. they say this could be done on the moon and could form the building blocks of a future moon

base. >> the teams say using the robotic vehicle or a fleet of them to mix and squirt into place the moon concrete would be faster, cheaper, and safer than using astronauts to do the job. >> if you would today build the moon base with normal technologies, you would have to bring to the moon, the materials, the tooling, the astronauts to build the moon base there. with this technology, what you just do is you send the machine to the moon, the 3d printer to the moon and use the dust that you find already on the moon to build moon base around the machine, itself. >> the concrete shield would protect the next from small meteor i am packet and block out dangerous radiation. >> on certain parts of the moon and on planets like mars, water does exist. and that really makes resupply a lot easier for future astronauts if the resources are already there, just take along the

technology to ex tract them. >> we won't be sitting up manned basis on other planets or on the moon for decades at the very least. but when we do, new and innovative ways of building will be essential if we are going to turn science fiction into fact. . arek bazley, al jazeera at the spoken space agency center in the netherlands. >> time for sport now and here is raoul. thank you very much. one place to start, old trafford taking register on liverpool in the english premier league having been on the wrong side of a 3-nil defeat, louie van hull's men won by the very same score l line. rooney, and robin van %ey gave the home side a comfortable win. they remain five points behind manchester city. tottenham beating swansee brandon rogers and liver pooled slipped to 10th 18th points

behind leaders chelsea. >> i think the most important match is always the next match. we have to see match by match. of course, we are winning now, six matches in a row. it's fantastic. but we have to improve our play style still, and i am saying that nearly every week. >> it's not often be you come here and create that many chances. since last year, we probably didn't create half of the opportunities there. so for the goalkeeper to get man of the match tells you everything about, you know, the side of the game i was looking for the team to improve on, the creativity, because we created more chances than what we have done for nearly five, six games. i was pleased from that aspect. >> to spain now and athletico madrid can go above barcelona into second plates if they can

beat villa real, but goal less, called roan, the second half about to get underway. meanwhile in italy, roma have closed the gap on ejuventus. to golf, brandon grace has won the alfred donehill championship in south africa. he led since the first day but his advantage was cut to just one stroke at the start of the fourth round. but the 26-year-old south african more than held his nerve with a final round, 68 on sunday. four birdies saw po fen were challenges. the 2010 open, 7 shots behind grace, picking up a 5th european tour title. former world number 1 lee westward won the thailand championship by a single shot, four birdies in a row helped him to a 67 in his final round but

he had to sit nervously in the club house and wait to see if it would be enough. it turned out it was when there was a miss. he was winning this event for the second time. crick cricket have won. the pakistanis made 364 for 7 of their 50 overs. shamazad make 113. the kiwis never got close, to be honest. they were bold out for 2 sdpeening. pack sten by 14-7. a 2-1 lead in the best of 5 sef series. the massai olympics in kenya that uses traditional sport to help save one of the current trees's most important animals. he lease hollmann explains. >> reporter: in the shadows of not kilamanjaro, 2,000 young massais prepare for an ancients tradition. in generations, the only way for them to prove their manhead was to kill a lion but with the an

ma'am population dropping by a third in the past two decades, a prized lion has made way for the massai olympics. >> back in the day, people used to kill lions because they didn't know the animal's benefits. now, we understand their importance. >> that's why we don't kill them. >>. >> one day of athletics events with a maasai twist. rather than discus, the holing of the rongu, a warrior club stick used to scare off jackals, the jumping dance has become the equivalent of high jumps. a javelin replaced by a spear with grass, the only target. >> this idea was how can we educate the warrior in a constructive manner, to stop killing lions for their benefit. it's not just toefs.

scholarships and cash are on offer while the two race winners won a trip to next year's new york marathon. advice from the world's most famous maasai, david rudisha was available to all? >> i will be very happy to see we have some more maasai coming in to support because i understand that we -- so far, we are still very few coming from ken kenya. this is a very good initiative because we are trying to teach and to educate them about conservation and as well as sports. >> for the lion-hearted, at least, culture and tradition is preserved while one day, a chance at a bigger olympics could arise. he lease hallman, al jazeera. >> tension on the slopes. marsel edged out felix to win his 26th alpine world cup race.

he was behind the german at the halfway stage of the slalom event in sweeden, but edged into the lead after a good second run. so, it all hinges on the efforts now. he looked on course to win. he missed out on taking victory by a 10th of a seconds leaving the suppose to hirsha who tops the overall world cup rankings. the $2 million hong kong cup was won by design on rome in a thrilling finish with 300 meters. the event winner was in the pack but the move was made at the right moment. the 4-year-old in the red and yell sillies were the late charge coming to the track to win. designs on rome takes the prides from military attack. it was 1/100th of a second. that it. more sport later. >> thank you very much. now, let's go to a story about a long-lost avante garde

painting sold in hungary after an art historian rediscovered it in a children's film. rob mathison has the details. >> a mouse and a mystery. stewart little, a hollywood film about a mouse who shows that great things come in small packages. but watching the movie with his daughter, art historian burkey was drawn to a painting hanging on a wall behind the actors. >> suddenly, i became very excited and my daughter didn't understand why i am so excited. that was it. that was the first -- the first scene when i realized that there is a painting. >> he recognized it immediately even though he had only seen it in a faded black and white photo. >> i took it like a miracle of christmas for me. it was a gift for a hungarian art historian.

after christmas, i started to make contact with the film makers. >> it's called squat sleeping lady with a black vase" by hundred geren artist robert wereny. it's been missing over 90 years. >> obviously in the second half of the 1920s, everything was present in european painting, and those tendencies reached hungary, too. berenie was able to capture all of them in a wonderful harmony. >> no one knows how it got to the u.s. but a film set designer found it in a california antique shop. now, it's being sold at auction for over $285,000. a little bit of the mystery continues. the hungarian private collector has bought it, but no one knows who it is. rob mathson, al jazeera. >> the mystery does could not. stay with us here on al jazeera. we've got another full bullet of news for you right at the top of the hour.

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